Chrysocoris stollii explained

Chrysocoris stollii is a polyphagous species of jewel bugs (Scutelleridae) common in continental Southeast Asia.

Description

General colour of dorsum metallic blue, green, or purple; abdominal venter yellow, broadly margined with purple laterad to spiracles, spiracles II–VII each surrounded by a rounded black spot; pro-, meso- and metepimeroids together with the supracoxal lobes yellow; coxae and trochanters pale yellow, femora with an apical annulus and longitudinal bands black, tibiae and tarsi black.[1]

Bionomics

These insects feed on plant juices from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops such as Pigeon pea, Pongamia, Arecanut, Jatropha etc.[2]

Distribution

One of the most common and abundant scutellerid in continental Southeast Asia. It is distributed all over Indochina and through the Sub-Himalayan Belt it extends up to Pakistan. Verified records are available from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; literature records from Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia are erroneous.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jing-Fu Tsai. Dávid Rédei. Geng-Fang Yeh. Man-Miao Yang. amp. Jewel bugs of Taiwan (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). National Chung Hsing University. 1991. 309. 978-9-8602-8723-3. 799436034 .
  2. Web site: Insect Pests . 2016-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181206172103/http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Chrysocoris-stolli.php . 2018-12-06 . dead .